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How do i do a Speed Test?

Gilfammedicine
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How do i do a Speed Test?

My ReadyNas 212 is running extremely slow. Last time i just did the update and it solved the problem. But this time there is no update. My Antivirus is off and it has been working very fast recently. What is the best way to run a speed test on the transfer speeds of the NAS? 

 

Thanks

Model: RN21200|ReadyNAS 212 Series 2- Bay (Diskless)
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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

If you have a Windows PC, I suggest using NAStester ( http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance )

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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

If you have a Windows PC, I suggest using NAStester ( http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance )

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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

These were my speed test results. It seems like an average pf 72 mb/sec is a pretty good speed and yet our system runs so slowly. As an example, it took about 10 minutes to open a small PDF. 

 

Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 10.90 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 94.06 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 102.16 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 82.46 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 71.32 MB/sec
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Average (W): 72.18 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 85.41 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 30.46 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 89.10 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 78.16 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 85.75 MB/sec
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Average (R): 73.77 MB/sec
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Model: RN212D22|ReadyNAS 212 Series 2-Bay
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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

After restart, speed seemed to increase, but it will start to slow down again to a crawl. These are the speed test results after restart.

 

 

NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 94.57 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 96.99 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 102.03 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 42.81 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 62.01 MB/sec
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Average (W): 79.68 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 95.40 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 74.28 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 83.89 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 94.65 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 42.09 MB/sec
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Average (R): 78.06 MB/sec
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Model: RN212|2 BAY Desktop ReadyNAS Storage
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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?


@Gilfammedicine wrote:

These were my speed test results. It seems like an average pf 72 mb/sec is a pretty good speed and yet our system runs so slowly. As an example, it took about 10 minutes to open a small PDF. 

 


You should be getting speeds in the 100 MB/s range - and you are sometimes, but then you see the big drops (for example the 10 MB/sec test above).  Was anyone else accessing the NAS when you ran the speed test?  

 

Also,

What firmware are you running?

What apps/services do you have installed?

 

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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

Gotcha. No one else was on at the time. Currently, my computer is the only one mapped to the NAS while i am figuring out all the quirks. 

I don't have any apps and my firmware is up to date. I took a screen shot of the admin panel. 

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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

Perhaps download the log zip file, and look at the SMART stats in disk_info.log

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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

Where do i find that file?

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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

Go into the web ui, and download the log zip (the download logs control is on the logs tab).

 

Also, I'd look for network errors in network_settings.log.

 

You could also look for errors in system.log and kernel.log (around the time of the glacial pdf transfer).

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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

I don't see any erros in those logs. The readycloud.log had hundreds of errors, but not sure if that is linked to the slowness? I don't need access to the cloud as much as i need my local network to be functional and fast. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out, i'm a little bit of a noob when it comes to the NAS. 

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StephenB
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

You could try temporarily disabling ReadyCloud and see if that solves the performance issue.

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Gilfammedicine
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Re: How do i do a Speed Test?

So just running through some of the more obvious issues that could be causing my slow speeds, i switched out the Cat 5e to a Cat 6 and these were the speeds i got. The ones before were going as low as 10mb/s. So hopefully i had a faulty cable. I will continue to runs the speed test and see what i am getting on the new cable. 

 

NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 103.92 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 101.55 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 109.74 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 106.92 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 95.01 MB/sec
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Average (W): 103.43 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 48.33 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 94.97 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 60.59 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 94.03 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 98.15 MB/sec
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Average (R): 79.21 MB/sec
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Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 98.70 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 63.76 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 81.34 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 86.08 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 91.80 MB/sec
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Average (W): 84.34 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on O: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 96.74 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 87.21 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 70.43 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 107.70 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 104.57 MB/sec
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Average (R): 93.33 MB/sec
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